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# wasp

«wasp» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flying insect with a thin waist and yellow and black…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wasp, wasps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wasp is a flying insect with a thin waist and yellow and black stripes; it can sting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#m1)

2) Wasps live in nests (often made from chewed wood that looks like paper) and many of them live together in a colony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science wasps are insects (six legs, three body parts); they eat other insects and help control pests, and some help pollinate flowers. Unlike a honeybee, a wasp can sting more than once. In safety lessons: stay calm and move away slowly, don't flap or swat, don't drink from a can left outside, and tell an adult about a nest; if someone is allergic, a sting can be an emergency. Phrases: wasp sting, wasps' nest, a swarm of wasps.

### examples

- A wasp landed on my sandwich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x1)
- Stay calm and walk away slowly from a wasp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x2)
- Don't poke a wasps' nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x3)
- Wasps can sting more than once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x4)
- Check your drink can for wasps before you sip in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x5)
- My arm swelled after a wasp sting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x6)
- Wasps make nests out of chewed wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x7)
- Wasps help gardens by eating caterpillars and flies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x8)
- Now Gopani-Kufa had a wasp called Zengi-mizi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/#x9)

### note

Countable: wasps. Wasps and bees are different: bees are usually furry and rounder; wasps are smooth and shiny with a thin waist. Myth: wasps do not sting for no reason; they sting when they feel threatened. If someone's face or throat swells after a sting, call emergency help.

### In the corpora

- [A hoverfly has one pair of wings and can hover still in the air, while a wasp has two pairs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/12/)
- [Like every insect, a bee or a wasp has six legs, two antennae and two pairs of wings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/17/)
- [In many glass frogs the father guards the eggs on a leaf, keeping them wet and safe from wasps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/308-frogs-of-the-world-tree-frogs-glass-frogs-flying-frogs-and-the-goliath-frog/9/)
- [Bees and wasps sting mainly to defend themselves and their nest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/8/)
- [Swatting at a bee or wasp makes a sting more likely.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wasp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wasp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.